what are you doing right now?

[giramomma]

Sept 4, 2024 11:08:40 GMT -5 swamp said:

I've found one of the best things for job success is acknowledging your fuck ups and owning them.  

I've learned more from mistakes than I have from doing everything right.   If you think you're doing everything right, you don't grow.  

I'd agree that if you are doing everything right, it means you don't grow.

It can also come from doing the same thing for a very long time. Over and over again. One would hope when you do the same process 30-50 times a year, over 15+ years..that there would be little mistakes after 10 years anyway. 

And, in my work, mistakes directly affect customers. Too many mistakes, and our customers will be unhappy. 

That's not to say I shouldn't acknowledge my screw ups. I started making mistakes when the workload got to be too much. It fell on deaf ears. 

[toomuchreality]

Sept 4, 2024 20:18:59 GMT -5 countrygirl2 said:

Well gosh, I will tell you about my day. I ended up confused is about all that happened.

I did prepare dinner about 5 as we were all starving. Had steaks, corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes, and baked potatoes, so that was good. The steaks were very good from the new meat market I found, going to look for others though to compare. This one is not very far away and has been in business for 70. Since we can't get Amish meat anymore going to have to pay more, but that's ok, we don't mind eating good meat that isn't steak.

Ok, I went to see about Medicaid for DD, that was an adventure, first finding the place was the first part.

We signed in and 137 minutes later our column had not moved. I went to the desk and asked if there was a problem. Oh they are just at lunch, for over an hour and a half? No I did not say that, just thank you. It must have been another hour before we got called back. I could not get info if she made to much money, could not get info about reports, nothing. She took the bank acct info, her monthly income, and other information. Probably another hour. When we got through, she said oh after you spend down?? Spend down, she gets $1429 a month from SS on her dads record. They said she has to spend $2997 every 6 months for medical before anything is covered? That the only thing covered is part B, so now she has medicare A and B only. So now she has no supplement and no part D and apple care will not pay D. I have a number to statewide heath ins benefit advisors she gave me. I couldn't get clarification if that was for drugs, hospital, or what.

I'm really wondering if  I went to the right place. She has been disabled from birth and has had Medicaid since age 18 then Medicare and Medicaid after I retired and started drawing SS at age 62.

I can't imagine any insurance company giving her a supplement, though maybe I can get part D, that will help a ton if she can get that. This girl seemed to be just reading from a script in her mind. Maybe she didn't know.So I am not anymore informed than I was.
She gave me 1 numbers  to call, so now the chase starts. Just wow.

If there are new federal guidelines out its not being shared, but none of ever is, you have to dig and dig to find information.

Good luck!
How's your DH feeling?

My DD1 had Covid a week/2 weeks ago. Yuck.

[chiver78]

Sept 4, 2024 20:06:00 GMT -5 mollyanna58 said:

OK all, how about everyone lays off Opti for a while. It's not helping anyone.  Please and thank you.

nah, she brought this on herself. I might have been onboard with you until she threw me under the bus today as well. unprompted, I might add. play stupid games, win stupid prizes. 🤷‍♀️

[tallguy]

Sept 4, 2024 20:06:00 GMT -5 mollyanna58 said:

OK all, how about everyone lays off Opti for a while. It's not helping anyone.  Please and thank you.

There is the other side, though.  If any of this impresses upon her what the actual problem is, it could help everyone.  Especially her.

No, I am not optimistic (no pun intended.)

[countrygirl2]

DH is still sick. Thank you for asking. He is having chills and fever. He said he managed to put the combo lock on the pill closet, that is extremely important. He said by the time he walked to the truck and got some tools and walked back and put it in, he was done. He is complaining about one of his arms killing him. I went through the same thing, total exhaustion, which I'm still not totally over. He is getting taken care of so ok. I still think he has a rather mild case, but just going to take time.

As our son said, he needs to rest awhile anyway and quit pushing himself so hard, I agree. He has been working like crazy for months and with surgery and everything else, I think he needs to rest. 

[chiver78]

Sept 4, 2024 20:52:09 GMT -5 countrygirl2 said:

DH is still sick. Thank you for asking. He is having chills and fever. He said he managed to put the combo lock on the pill closet, that is extremely important. He said by the time he walked to the truck and got some tools and walked back and put it in, he was done. He is complaining about one of his arms killing him. I went through the same thing, total exhaustion, which I'm still not totally over. He is getting taken care of so ok. I still think he has a rather mild case, but just going to take time.

As our son said, he needs to rest awhile anyway and quit pushing himself so hard, I agree. He has been working like crazy for months and with surgery and everything else, I think he needs to rest. 

hugs to you and DH, cg. 💗

[cooper88]

I brought in the hummingbird feeders to wash and refill after work. I was greeted by an angry swarm when I hung the first one back up. Dudes, there are still flowers! That you guys like! You are not going to starve.

[swamp]

Sept 4, 2024 16:29:23 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

Sept 4, 2024 16:19:06 GMT -5 Opti said:

Some time you are so very young and very unaware of other parts of RL.
What do you guys want, a cookie?
Her experience is not the kind that can judge my career nor do either of you possess that.

You and Chiver haven't even attained my age when 9/11 coincided with a big merger that left not just me unemployed but lots of
folks. Chiver has the work at home flexibility us EEs in college thought surely we would have later in our careers. For us, it really did not take. Computer systems need to be managed in close to real time. Software upgrades need the in-person touch and often go to heck costing time, sleep, and money. Mergers, acquisitions, buyouts and bad financial planning at the top levels have cost me every single job I have had post college except for a couple I chose to leave. And those went away as well not long after as it turns out. The closer you work to operating systems and hardware, the more likely you are to get almost zero notice your job is going to be gone. Sometimes it is that meeting notice in your email with HR and your boss letting you know you lost the lottery to keep your job based on what you were working on. Or your manager lost the battles behind closed doors on which personnel would survive from both companies. Or better yet what skeleton staff would be kept until the new buyers took over and for how long.

I have been working FT for more than 6 years so try to keep up. I have never been a mediocre worker, but I have had my share of bad bosses. And I do suffer in the self-promotion, bragging and lying department. It's part of that Midwest upbringing plus being brought up female in the 60s. My parents are from farming backgrounds. Yours?

Please don't try again. If you need to bash me to feel better about yourselves or validate your existence, please avail yourself of a PM thread. This is tiresome.

wow! without even addressing the garbage you threw at me, I'm just gonna come out and say that what is fucking tiresome is you playing the damn victim. yes, you got dealt a shit hand awhile back. you were an able bodied adult that could physically work at that time. did you find anything you could for the short term? no. did you find something when you absolutely had to? sure, but it still didn't really pay the bills.

in the past few days that I've seen (I have to seek out your posts on mobile and choose to display them, with that wonderful block) you have thrown not only andi and me out to shred, but also daisylu, and a number of others. I can't believe I have to explain to a techie of your vintage, but message boards aren't cloud journals. you post on a message board with other posters, and you're going to get responses. if you don't want responses, don't post on a message board. 🤷‍♀️ as has been made clear to many other posters along the way, you do not have the right to tell other posters they cannot respond to you. (said with the mod hat on. - chiver mod )

I'm gonna close here, without at all answering your bullshit toward me since it isn't worth my time, by suggesting that you consider the various mentions of the common denominator here. hint - it isn't us.

It appears that the original post was edited. I’ve stated out of this cluster but I need to respond to the part about self promotion, bragging and lying. I’m not a liar, I’m not a braggart, but I will tell you straight up what I can do. I’m hesitant to promote myself, but if I don’t do it, who will?

Frankly I’m offended that you are insinuating I am a liar.

And the part about parents from farms. So?

My mom grew up in a farm. My parents did not go to college. None of my grandparents graduated from HS. My DH grew up on a farm. Farm people are generally resourceful, creative, and hard workers. Adapt and overcome.

[giramomma]

I seem to have gotten a sinus infection. I don't know why I get them instead of colds.

I almost cried happy tears today at the new job. 

[azucena]

Got home with bonus teen about 4. Going to bed as soon as I hit post.

How do I stop hovering? I don't want to let her out of my sight bc I'm worried she will fall and get hurt...oh and just typing that out made me realize that I'm also likely hovering bc she almost didn't get to come home with us.

I forget in my exhausted state if it's Gira or Rae with diabetic kid. How do you make yourself give him space?

[daisylu]

Sept 4, 2024 18:26:44 GMT -5 Opti said:

Chiver I don't report everything I do. And I agree I should explain less because you guys trash me almost every chance you get when it comes to jobs because you believe certain things. If you haven't already noticed, I almost never comment on any of your employment histories unless you disclose them to on me.

Daisylu disclosed her history to on me. For no other reason at all. That made it fair game because it's like comparing apples to a grab bag of different fruits. Sure, they are both fruit, but after that comparison, it is generally worthless. I think you(collective) want to believe that good people always prevail, and others must suck in some way if they do not. That's a Trumper idea, a GOP worthiness idea and its frankly beneath you all to believe it.



P.S. This is for me
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactions_Corporation

I am as far from a Trumper as you can get. Try again. 

[taz157]

Sept 4, 2024 21:39:39 GMT -5 azucena said:

Got home with bonus teen about 4. Going to bed as soon as I hit post.

How do I stop hovering? I don't want to let her out of my sight bc I'm worried she will fall and get hurt...oh and just typing that out made me realize that I'm also likely hovering bc she almost didn't get to come home with us.

I forget in my exhausted state if it's Gira or Rae with diabetic kid. How do you make yourself give him space?

Tagging raeoflyte as she has a diabetic son.

[countrygirl2]

I was so stressed I didn't read another paper I was given. Ok DD is over allowable income by $466 a month, like wow, up here in this extremely high cost of living only allowed $943 a month.

The spend down is $2796 and is treated like a deductible. This is for ALLOWED medical expenses and most scripts are NOT allowed expenses.It says you can use part D copay and premiums you pay towards your spend down. Ok, if she can get drug coverage we have no issue paying for it, but she sure needs it.I will see if I can get her Cigna like she had through Medicaid in Indiana. 

If I can get her drug coverage and know that the balance of her bills will be covered in hospital or get her a supplement, I'm fine with this. Yes, I panicked as I only heard the almost $3k amount and no drug coverage. So far this year her drugs are up to $28k.

We pay more and more for premiums for us, and more and more out of pocket for scripts, all this is chipping away at our income.  And I'm worried about selling either house, few lookers no offers and even my car is not selling. We will leave the car a month, if it does not sell hubs and son are going to bring it up here. Son will sell DIL's car and give me what he gets in exchange for my Buick. We will eventually sell the houses, its just when. The expenses other than prop taxes and ins are minimal, except for the other one up here. 

[andi9899]

Sept 4, 2024 17:30:04 GMT -5 daisylu said:

Sept 4, 2024 16:19:06 GMT -5 Opti said:

Some time you are so very young and very unaware of other parts of RL.
What do you guys want, a cookie?
Her experience is not the kind that can judge my career nor do either of you possess that.

You and Chiver haven't even attained my age when 9/11 coincided with a big merger that left not just me unemployed but lots of
folks. Chiver has the work at home flexibility us EEs in college thought surely we would have later in our careers. For us, it really did not take. Computer systems need to be managed in close to real time. Software upgrades need the in-person touch and often go to heck costing time, sleep, and money. Mergers, acquisitions, buyouts and bad financial planning at the top levels have cost me every single job I have had post college except for a couple I chose to leave. And those went away as well not long after as it turns out. The closer you work to operating systems and hardware, the more likely you are to get almost zero notice your job is going to be gone. Sometimes it is that meeting notice in your email with HR and your boss letting you know you lost the lottery to keep your job based on what you were working on. Or your manager lost the battles behind closed doors on which personnel would survive from both companies. Or better yet what skeleton staff would be kept until the new buyers took over and for how long.

I have been working FT for more than 6 years so try to keep up. I have never been a mediocre worker, but I have had my share of bad bosses. And I do suffer in the self-promotion, bragging and lying department. It's part of that Midwest upbringing plus being brought up female in the 60s. My parents are from farming backgrounds. Yours?

Please don't try again. If you need to bash me to feel better about yourselves or validate your existence, please avail yourself of a PM thread. This is tiresome.

I'm not sure how chiver got thrown into this? 

IIRC, you are less than 15 years older than me (about to turn 50).  I've changed jobs many times over the years.  You chose not to grow. I've been working full time plus more for almost 30 years. Try to get sympathy somewhere else. And stop blaming everyone else for your shortfalls.

Wait a minute. Are you saying that she's retirement age and still doesn't have her shit together? How does one reconcile that? I can see being young and stupid, but being good and grown and not having two nickels to rub together is wild!

[raeoflyte]

Sept 4, 2024 22:28:57 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

Sept 4, 2024 21:39:39 GMT -5 azucena said:

Got home with bonus teen about 4. Going to bed as soon as I hit post.

How do I stop hovering? I don't want to let her out of my sight bc I'm worried she will fall and get hurt...oh and just typing that out made me realize that I'm also likely hovering bc she almost didn't get to come home with us.

I forget in my exhausted state if it's Gira or Rae with diabetic kid. How do you make yourself give him space?

I'm not the person to ask. I can monitor his blood sugar remotely almost 24/7. I set extra alarms to check his blood sugar every 2 hours every night just in case the low alarm fails, and I'm almost certainly going to spend an extra $6k to follow him on a school trip to Germany for a week when he will be months away from 17 because I can't trust anyone else to do overnight care for him. (I will help him prepare to handle that on his own, but I wasn't going to push him into that as a sophomore in high-school and he'll still need back up which the school cant provide). I am the helicopter mom I used to roll my eyes at.

So realistically I'd hover, especially the first few days/weeks. Ds was 6 when he was diagnosed so we could control everything and give that back to him with lots of help and support as he's been ready to take it on. Starting with something as a teenager is so much harder - I think for both of you. I'm certain that you are both going to do great with everything, but I expect it will come with a lot of worry.

I mean that supportively - so hopefully that comes through. Tuck bonus teen in to bed, stick the Christmas bells on her door so you can hear if she gets up and try to get some rest. You're doing an amazing job.

Eta: I don't know anything about bonus teens specific condition but for newly diagnosed type 1's our biggest thing is that youre going to get a lot of bad advice - if something someone says makes you feel bad - table it/ignore it - its probably wrong. You can ask the doctor about it if needed. And 2nd piece is it gets better. I really, really hope that piece is true sooner than later for both of you. Big hugs.

[raeoflyte]

This thread might have to be re-named the Regina George club.

[andi9899]

Sept 4, 2024 18:26:44 GMT -5 Opti said:

Chiver I don't report everything I do. And I agree I should explain less because you guys trash me almost every chance you get when it comes to jobs because you believe certain things. If you haven't already noticed, I almost never comment on any of your employment histories unless you disclose them to on me.

Daisylu disclosed her history to on me. For no other reason at all. That made it fair game because it's like comparing apples to a grab bag of different fruits. Sure, they are both fruit, but after that comparison, it is generally worthless. I think you(collective) want to believe that good people always prevail, and others must suck in some way if they do not. That's a Trumper idea, a GOP worthiness idea and its frankly beneath you all to believe it.



P.S. This is for me
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactions_Corporation

WTF does that even mean? You are so weird. To even believe that I of all people (who you have decided to focus on) am anything like a Trumper is just asinine. You really need to at minimum take time to reflect. You should actually be seeking help from a professional. I'm sure they accept Medicaid.

[andi9899]

Sept 4, 2024 20:06:00 GMT -5 mollyanna58 said:

OK all, how about everyone lays off Opti for a while. It's not helping anyone.  Please and thank you.

Or she could go and reflect as I suggested. Why should the rest of us be subjected to her foolishness in order to "make nice"? Your answer is to let her spew hate undisturbed at the detriment of others?

[andi9899]

Sept 4, 2024 20:20:36 GMT -5 giramomma said:

Sept 4, 2024 11:08:40 GMT -5 swamp said:

I've found one of the best things for job success is acknowledging your fuck ups and owning them.  

I've learned more from mistakes than I have from doing everything right.   If you think you're doing everything right, you don't grow.  

I'd agree that if you are doing everything right, it means you don't grow.

It can also come from doing the same thing for a very long time. Over and over again. One would hope when you do the same process 30-50 times a year, over 15+ years..that there would be little mistakes after 10 years anyway. 

And, in my work, mistakes directly affect customers. Too many mistakes, and our customers will be unhappy. 

That's not to say I shouldn't acknowledge my screw ups. I started making mistakes when the workload got to be too much. It fell on deaf ears. 

Agreed. I've been doing my job for 25 years. Have I screwed up? Hell yes! Do I still screw up sometimes? Hell yes! Do I own it and try to do better? Hell yes! If you're not doing that, you're not learning/growing.

[andi9899]

Sept 4, 2024 21:27:34 GMT -5 giramomma said:

I seem to have gotten a sinus infection. I don't know why I get them instead of colds.

I almost cried happy tears today at the new job. 

Do tell! About the happy tears that is. Sorry about the sinus infection.

[andi9899]

Sept 4, 2024 22:35:28 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

This thread might have to be re-named the Regina George club.

I disagree. It's not being a mean girl to point out facts. We're not gossiping. If a person comes here daily with "woe is me" and gets helpful hints/advice only to say "I didn't ask for help! You don't know me!" And then back to "feel bad for me! I'm a victim of my own choices!" That's not being mean. We all bitch and moan about things. Then we move on. Only a few keep the bitching and moaning on repeat daily.

[Peace77]

Sept 4, 2024 21:39:39 GMT -5 azucena said:

Got home with bonus teen about 4. Going to bed as soon as I hit post.

How do I stop hovering? I don't want to let her out of my sight bc I'm worried she will fall and get hurt...oh and just typing that out made me realize that I'm also likely hovering bc she almost didn't get to come home with us.

I forget in my exhausted state if it's Gira or Rae with diabetic kid. How do you make yourself give him space?

I went to college with a woman with a seizure disorder.  She always requested chairs with arms in each classroom.  That way, if she had a seizure, she would be less likely to fall off the chair.

There are service dogs that work as seizure alert dogs.  They alert the person when a seizure is about to happen so that the person can sit or lie down.  I don’t know if that would work with her type of seizure.  

Hopefully, they can find a helpful medication.

[finnime]

Good morning, astute and alert invisipeeps, readying for anything that comes your way. Welcome to Thursday. I hope this day treats you well and respectfully, and that you find cause for and do celebrate something as the day progresses. I hope no one pisses in your pancakes.

Today is the big scramble to get ready for the weekend festival about an hour and twenty minutes away. We'll be staying in a relatively nearby hotel and hoping for the best. This festival is on the Cape, where there is a big off-season market. Since we made some changes and are now promoting matted prints at a much lesser cost than framed ones, we hope to do well.

We will be seeing seals. They are famously abundant in the area we're going to. Hope to also see more of the National Seashore.

But mainly today is preparing. Franklin the Dog will stay with DSis, so I will need to bring him up there tomorrow after DD's PT session and before we depart. He's got a big knot in the bottom side of his tail which has a lot of long fur. Need to cut it out. Will get to that today.

Yesterday was another clear and perfect day. This pic is of the recreational part of our harbor, with some of the town's skyline in the background.

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Sept 4, 2024 19:12:06 GMT -5 NoNamePerson said:

Sept 4, 2024 18:49:47 GMT -5 toomuchreality said:

Bwahaha. I've never heard that before. But I was able to find it with a quick Google search.
🤣

Never dawned on me you could google it!  I heard somebody say it in a bar years ago to a whinny type. Fortunately the bartender had just moved down to the next customer or he would have been wearing my vodka and orange juice.    The only difference in saying is sex (not sh##) was what bar dude said!

My dad used to say this to us all the time as we were growing up.  More concisely, he would say ‘if you want sympathy, you can find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis’.  

I’ve said it a few times to TD when he’s needed to hear it, and he’s thrown it back at me too.

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Sept 4, 2024 21:39:39 GMT -5 azucena said:

Got home with bonus teen about 4. Going to bed as soon as I hit post.

How do I stop hovering? I don't want to let her out of my sight bc I'm worried she will fall and get hurt...oh and just typing that out made me realize that I'm also likely hovering bc she almost didn't get to come home with us.

I forget in my exhausted state if it's Gira or Rae with diabetic kid. How do you make yourself give him space?

Rae has the diabetic son.  

I suspect that she doesn’t hover him as much because he has a CGM now, so she hovers over her phone instead.

I can’t imagine how this feels, and the absolute need to hover.

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Wedding day.  My sister and her daughters left for the castle early this morning to get hair and make up done.  Apparently I slept through it, so got a second hand version from TD.  

To recap, yesterday was one of her daughter’s birthday and the rehearsal dinner.  My niece (26) threw a tantrum yesterday morning because we did not jump up and wish her happy birthday.  So we had to go out and get her coffee.  She didn’t like the first coffee shop we went to, so threw another tantrum.  At the first coffee shop, after getting caffeinated we went looking to get my cell phone working.  We also picked up a card for birthday niece and shoved cash in it.  I figured I was doing good to remember the card for the bride and groom.  Give the card to niece, it gets blown off.  

Rehearsal dinner ended before we got back from dinner.  My sister made arrangements for a birthday cake during the rehearsal dinner, brought the leftover cake back to the condo.  My birthday niece went out and got home in the wee hours of the morning, slamming doors.  Not sure what was up with that.  I was asleep and heard the doors slam.  TD was pissed, he was having a hard time sleeping and he didn’t get back to sleep so easily.  Guess she went to downtown Waterford for a birthday jumping?  

Regardless, woke up to am empty condo and coffee (since we picked some up at that coffee shop yesterday).  Incidentally, clotted cream leftover from yesterday’s tea makes fabulous coffee cream!  

So we need to shower and pack up and move to the castle for tonight.  There is so much drama going on, the daughter my sister was worried about is being a dream, her sister is being a pill.  I’m not used to living around tantrums and slamming doors.  

[daisylu]

Sept 5, 2024 4:18:43 GMT -5 The Walk of the Penguin Mich said:

Wedding day.  My sister and her daughters left for the castle early this morning to get hair and make up done.  Apparently I slept through it, so got a second hand version from TD.  

To recap, yesterday was one of her daughter’s birthday and the rehearsal dinner.  My niece (26) threw a tantrum yesterday morning because we did not jump up and wish her happy birthday.  So we had to go out and get her coffee.  She didn’t like the first coffee shop we went to, so threw another tantrum.  At the first coffee shop, after getting caffeinated we went looking to get my cell phone working.  We also picked up a card for birthday niece and shoved cash in it.  I figured I was doing good to remember the card for the bride and groom.  Give the card to niece, it gets blown off.  

Rehearsal dinner ended before we got back from dinner.  My sister made arrangements for a birthday cake during the rehearsal dinner, brought the leftover cake back to the condo.  My birthday niece went out and got home in the wee hours of the morning, slamming doors.  Not sure what was up with that.  I was asleep and heard the doors slam.  TD was pissed, he was having a hard time sleeping and he didn’t get back to sleep so easily.  Guess she went to downtown Waterford for a birthday jumping?  

Regardless, woke up to am empty condo and coffee (since we picked some up at that coffee shop yesterday).  Incidentally, clotted cream leftover from yesterday’s tea makes fabulous coffee cream!  

So we need to shower and pack up and move to the castle for tonight.  There is so much drama going on, the daughter my sister was worried about is being a dream, her sister is being a pill.  I’m not used to living around tantrums and slamming doors.  

26 is way too old for that behavior. Hope the wedding goes more smoothly than the birthday! 

[taz157]

Sept 5, 2024 4:40:48 GMT -5 daisylu said:

Sept 5, 2024 4:18:43 GMT -5 The Walk of the Penguin Mich said:

Wedding day.  My sister and her daughters left for the castle early this morning to get hair and make up done.  Apparently I slept through it, so got a second hand version from TD.  

To recap, yesterday was one of her daughter’s birthday and the rehearsal dinner.  My niece (26) threw a tantrum yesterday morning because we did not jump up and wish her happy birthday.  So we had to go out and get her coffee.  She didn’t like the first coffee shop we went to, so threw another tantrum.  At the first coffee shop, after getting caffeinated we went looking to get my cell phone working.  We also picked up a card for birthday niece and shoved cash in it.  I figured I was doing good to remember the card for the bride and groom.  Give the card to niece, it gets blown off.  

Rehearsal dinner ended before we got back from dinner.  My sister made arrangements for a birthday cake during the rehearsal dinner, brought the leftover cake back to the condo.  My birthday niece went out and got home in the wee hours of the morning, slamming doors.  Not sure what was up with that.  I was asleep and heard the doors slam.  TD was pissed, he was having a hard time sleeping and he didn’t get back to sleep so easily.  Guess she went to downtown Waterford for a birthday jumping?  

Regardless, woke up to am empty condo and coffee (since we picked some up at that coffee shop yesterday).  Incidentally, clotted cream leftover from yesterday’s tea makes fabulous coffee cream!  

So we need to shower and pack up and move to the castle for tonight.  There is so much drama going on, the daughter my sister was worried about is being a dream, her sister is being a pill.  I’m not used to living around tantrums and slamming doors.  

26 is way too old for that behavior. Hope the wedding goes more smoothly than the birthday! 

Yeah that!

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Sept 5, 2024 5:12:54 GMT -5 taz157 said:

Sept 5, 2024 4:40:48 GMT -5 daisylu said:

26 is way too old for that behavior. Hope the wedding goes more smoothly than the birthday! 

Yeah that!

I agree.

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Well, we are finally in the castle room where we can change. They were telling us no early check in, check in is at 3. Ummmm, the wedding is at 3! There was a big group of us in the lobby hanging out waiting to check in, which makes pictures interesting as those are scheduled for 1:50 for us. It shouldn’t take us long to get ready as we are both showered, just need to change clothes and add make up.

Saw the bride and my sister all decked out on their way to pics. OMG she looks gorgeous!

Overcast day though. The photographer is going to be challenged today as the wedding is outside.